Women's International Thought

Women''s International Thought: A New History is the first cross-disciplinary history of women''s international thought. Bringing together some of the foremost historians and scholars of international relations working today this book recovers and analyses the path-breaking work of eighteen leading thinkers of international politics from the early to mid-twentieth century. Recovering and analyzing this important work the essays offer revisionist accounts of IR''s intellectual and disciplinary history and expand the locations genres and practices of international thinking. Systematically structured and focusing in particular on Black diasporic Anglo-American and European historical women it does more than ''add women'' to the existing intellectual and disciplinary histories from which they were erased. Instead it raises fundamental questions about which kinds of subjects and what kind of thinking constitutes international thought opening new vistas to scholars and students of international history and theory intellectual history and women''s and gender studies.